I want to piggyback on what Caroline said...one of the wonderful yet sad
ironies of this group is that everytime one of us loses a furbaby, we actually
help others who have lost their kitties beforehand. The more recent the loss,
the fresher the pain, and when we cry for another's loss, we are also crying
for our own, and we heal a little more each time. For Caroline, Monkee's
passing was fairly recent and she feels your pain acutely because her loss is
still so fresh. And yet Boo Boo's passing is actually helping her to grieve
and heal. I really believe this. After Cricket died, those who lost their
kitties soon afterwards were so hard for me to read about. I would start
reading and get this horrible lump in my throat and it would just burn. I
would cry until sometimes I didn't have anymore tears left. Reading about
other's losses would rip open the wound again and I would bleed some more, but
what I didn't realize was that I healed up a little
better each time. So even though I know you are hurting horribly over losing
Boo Boo, hopefully knowing that his loss is helping others to heal might make
things a little better.
Wendy
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----- Original Message ----
From: Caroline Kaufmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org
Sent: Monday, March 3, 2008 8:36:26 PM
Subject: RE: BooBoo left us
Lynne:
I just wanted to let you know that I felt so devastated this morning when I got
to work and checked my email and saw the subject lines from this site and the
FIP site. I literally said out loud "oh god, no." I know it didn't look good
for BooBoo after the vet said it looked like FIP too, but I always wanted to
have hope for him. I couldn't respond this a.m. because I ended up crying at
work after reading some of the BooBoo emails and I didn't have it in me. But I
wanted to tell you that there are fates worse than death itself- and one of
them is for a precious creature like BooBoo to have gone downhill with these
illness(es) alone, outside- and at the mercy of wild animals and maybe even
feral cats. So the fact that you gave him the only love he ever knew, shelter
in these most critical times (when he was extremely ill) and kept him from
those other, more horrible fates..., really does mean everything in the world.
The sacrifice that you make is
that you open your heart as well as your home and when he leaves you, you are
left with a broken heart. We all say we want more time with them (I still say
this about Monkee), but it's just not for us to make that decision so we have
to do the right thing at the time and enjoy what little time we do have with
them.
I know that BooBoo is in a good place-- hopefully, he is playing with Monkee
(even tho I always have to tell my previously alley cat, snorting, aggressive
big boy to "be nice!" to other kitties), Possum and Brumley. Possee and Brum
were the most gentle-souled, sweet natured babies ever so I am sure they are
taking good care of BooBoo.
Caroline
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org
Subject: BooBoo left us
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2008 22:04:15 -0500
We lost our precious baby tonight. He developed difficulty breathing and we
rushed him to the emergency clinic. He was dehydrated and had just had his
lungs aspirated Friday. The vet recently experienced the same situation with
his Himilayan, co-incidentally, though I sometimes think they make stuff up to
identify with your pain.
I held his little face in my hand and petted him as did Bob and he slipped away
almost immediately. I don't think I've cried this much in my life, Bob too.
At this moment I can't imagine ever being happy again. Sounds stupid but
BooBoo conveyed to me this evening it was time to go and he thanked us. He was
so very weak he could hardly walk but he was still purring as we pet him even
with the damn catheter in. We know this was best for him but the worst for us.
Thank you all for being so very supportive.
Lynne
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